Articles for category: Leadership

April 1, 2021

Greg Thomas

Leadership is Now Free!

Now with each promotion you get all of the leadership free – for every scenario you have ever thought of and/or considered now or in the future. Even if you don’t get a promotion, you can download all the scenarios for free from Google and have everything downloaded into your brain. All that hard work you’ve been doing all these years? No more, you’re good to go, just download leadership and you’ll be good to go. No, it’s not that easy, it never has been and if it was, it wouldn’t be fun. Happy April Fools (sorry if you clicked

March 22, 2021

Greg Thomas

Let Them Speak

When discussing an issue with a team member, you already know there is an issue – that’s why you setup the meeting. But when you get the meeting, your role isn’t to talk, your role is to ask a question and wait. Wait as long as it takes, but wait. The silence will be deafening, good, that’s the point. If you keep filling the air with words, you are never going to let them speak. Even if what they are saying is wrong, take notes, let them go on and wait until the end. You need to hear from them,

March 21, 2021

Greg Thomas

Elbows No More

We used to be elbow to elbow, and it’s looking like that won’t happen until late Fall, maybe early winter. And honestly, who really wants to go back to work starting in November when its rain and darkness city? But we’re no longer elbows apart, we’re no longer rolling our chairs around to talk to someone. We’re apart, and we’re trying to replicate that or create something new. Your old values might have been about being close to one another, but now it’s changed, and if you’re implementing that change (great) just don’t forget to reflect them in your core

March 20, 2021

Greg Thomas

Who is doing what?

The question you always need to ask at any point in a project – Is who is doing what? Who is on that feature? Who is on that user story? Who is working on that bug? What are they moving onto next? It’s the toughest question to ask because immediately the person doing the work thinks – “how do you not know what I’m doing?” But they do, and they will because perhaps a few weeks ago you all decided on what was to be worked on, but things have changed since that time (perhaps even if it’s a week)

March 16, 2021

Greg Thomas

Making an Impact

An impact starts small, it’s not all at once. You pound through it, break against it, chip away at it – day after day after day which turns into week after week. And after awhile of trying to do something, you take a step back and realize the dent, the hole, the whatever you have made. The Impact. The same is with a team, want to have them trust and believe in you? Show up every day, do the small things that matter, that help them, that grow them. Look at what they need, not what you need. The difference

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